Beats & Bars: The beginning of a legacy
Acoustic music, poetry, and a nice cup of tea. Matthew Wells speaks to the organiser of Warwick’s best open-mic night
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Duane Michals: ‘How photography lost its virginity on the way to the bank’
Matt Wells continues his expedition to uncover the motives of a remarkable photographer upon the release of his new book, _Foto Follies_
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Duane Michals: Impossible stories
Duane Michals is an American photographer, important for his innovative break with the ‘New Documentary’ approach that dominated photography in the late fifties and early sixties. He has continued to creatively oppose the problems he perceives in contemporary art. In the next issue I’ll discuss one of his recent creative...
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Boo
Boo is the debut album of the Swedish two piece Dag För Dag. The band has a distinctive sound, using rich vocal textures, guitar sounds and ambient sound-scapes in a way similar to the psychedelic side of recent new-folk. This spacious, placid side of their music is brought to life...
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Capturing time with Titarenko
Alexey Titarenko is a St Petersburg- based photographer, currently exhibiting around Europe, America and Russia. His photographs are beautifully eerie depictions of his city and its people in an enchanting atmosphere. The most intriguing feature of his photography, though, is time. Titarenko presents time not as a single moment, but...
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The Shadow of an Empire
Protection Racket’, the first single and opening song of _The Shadow of an Empire_, would have you believe that Fionn Regan has undergone some kind of musical metamorphosis. The truth is he hasn’t, at least not entirely. ‘Protection Racket’ is probably the new album’s most complete departure from his folk-orientated...
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Marlene
Listening to Lightspeed Champion’s new single, and the songs released with it, got me thinking about his old band Test Icicles. Yes, they’re childish, perhaps too abrasive too often, and music with even just a few screams is now largely frowned upon, but their music had something that Dev Hynes...
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